by Content | Aug 2, 2013 | Previous Featured Article
Meredith Hill – English Language Arts Educator & Garden Coordinator at Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering, in south Harlem discovered an original way to inspire her scholars. Ms. Hill, educator extraordinaire, borrowed 6 one week old...
by Content | Aug 2, 2013 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
Yankee, Tango and Lima Piers can be found on the Buttermilk Channel side of Governors Island. And on those piers can be found a secret treasure, for they play host to the island’s very own common tern breeding colony. Hundreds of common terns return to these piers...
by Content | Aug 2, 2013 | Rot Stars
“I feel so proud of my work in making this India bed (plants from India) emerge from a bed of weeds”. Athira Sivan On the first day of our new internship at Earth Matter, we did not know what to expect. We were told by our internship coordinators to dress...
by Content | Jul 11, 2013 | Rot Stars
Earth Matter depends on volunteers for accomplishing many of our day to day chores and is lucky to have multi talented members who lend a hand in sharing their skills and expertise. Alexis Negron, who has been apprenticing and volunteering since February 2013, does...
by Content | Jul 11, 2013 | Previous Animal in the Cycle
Q: What has 4 stomachs, teeth that continue to grow throughout their life, and poops gold? A: The compost workers on Governors Island come in a variety of sizes, ages, genders, and….species. Every summer Earth Matter imports 2 baby goats (kids) from Goodale Farms, a...
